Research Interests

My dissertation focused on gender performance and identity construction for young women using MySpace. During the project I considered ways the new media text is analogous to historic women's literacies. As such, my research interests include digital literacies and the expansion of research methodologies to investigate such new media spaces. I am also interested in composition pedagogy and women's rhetorics.

Teaching Interests

I have had the opportunity to work with a variety of student populations, from urban youth studying journalism and teenage girls practicing digital literacy skills to traditional undergraduate and graduate students. Before transitioning to the rhetoric and composition field, I supervised a university newspaper and taught a variety of journalism courses. I worked as a print journalist for several years and I believe my experiences as a professional writer shape my work in the classroom and have caused me to expand my definition of writing to include visual, video, online and other modes of communication. Most of my current courses (like Multimedia Theory and Production, Computers and Writing, and Online Identity Performance) combine my interest in teaching and technology.

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